Here's some cool news: libinput - the underlying input API for #Linux nowadays - will support dials on drawing tablets soon! 🎉 A lot of XP-PEN's Artist Pro series have these controls for example.

@whot pushed along the API I originally made about a year ago, many thanks 😮 This means that applications that use libinput can make use of these dials soon, like Wayland compositors. If you're technically inclined, you can see the completed MR here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/967

tablet: add API for relative dials (!967) · Merge requests · libinput / libinput · GitLab

This is a lot of copy/paste from the ring axes because the interface is virtually identical. The main difference is that dials give us a v120 value in...

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